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GHOSTLY ENCOUNTERS IN LAGOS: Virtual Reality between Urban Marketing and Media Activism
International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.Abstract This article examines the role of virtual reality (VR) technologies in mediating and contesting dominant visions of urban futures in West Africa. Drawing on theoretical insights from a hybridization of the work of the German‐born Jewish critic Walter Benjamin and the Nigerian writer Amos Tutuola, I introduce the concept of phantasmagoria as a ...
Hervé Roquet
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Natural Resources Forum, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This study examines the determinants of environmental efficiency in Germany between 1990 and 2022, focusing on labor productivity, green R&D productivity, fossil fuel inefficiency, and energy efficiency R&D expenditures. Using the Inverse Load Capacity Factor per unit of GDP as an indicator of environmental efficiency, the analysis utilizes ...
Mustafa Naimoğlu +2 more
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Iron Ore Pricing in China: Financialization Through a Marxist Lens
Abacus, EarlyView.We offer a Marxist interpretation of financialization as we examine the Chinese market for iron ore and the shift in the pricing mechanism from an annual fixed price to an indexed price from 2010. Drawing upon Marx's theory of the circuit of capital, we illustrate an empirical case of financialization that results from the conflict between social ...
Xun Gong, Eagle Zhang, Corinne Cortese
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The Vicissitudes of the Nafs: Madness, Paralysis, and the Work of Transgression in Sufi Ethics
Anthropology of Consciousness, EarlyView.ABSTRACT How should we theorize Sufi ethics when the practice of zikr (remembrance) that leads to spiritual enlightenment (tazkiyya) might also bring one to the brink of majzubiyat (madness)? What forms of regulation or restraint are imagined or enacted by practitioners to prevent spiritual boundlessness from perverting into its underside of paralysis (
Muhammad Osama Imran
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The Intellectual Transformation of Trần Đức Thảo
KalagatosThis article examines the intellectual transformation of Vietnamese philosopher Trần Đức Thảo (1917-1993), tracing his philosophical journey from an initial engagement with phenomenology, particularly Husserl’s methodologies, to a profound advocacy for ...
Nhu Nguyen, Chi Dang
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Revista Brasileira de Educação do CampoThe complexity surrounding the concept of nature presents a challenge for Science Education in Peasant Education. Rooted in the material struggle of peasant communities for access to land, Peasant Education proposes a dialectical reading of the political
Ana Paula Inacio Diório +2 more
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International Progress and Colonial Critique in E.H. Carr's Reflexive Realism
Constellations, EarlyView.
Arturo Chang
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Bioethics, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Many controversies in medical ethics, particularly those involving conflicts between parents and medical staff over decisions about child patients, are challenging to manage without causing significant polarization and communication issues. This is primarily because the parties involved—parents and physicians—operate at different epistemic ...
Chiara Innorta
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Development of Marxist philosophical thoughts on music education
Trans/Form/AçãoMarxist philosophical thought is an important ideological weapon for people to understand and transform the world. This paper studies the application and influence of Marxist philosophy in the field of music education, as well as the current development
Hongyuan Wu, Lin Zhu
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